Midoriya's POV
You can never be a hero. My old hero's voice echoes through my empty mind. How could I have been so stupid? Of course a stupid fucking quirkless couldn't have been anything more than a weight on society. useless. Useless. USELESS! I'LL NEVER BE A HERO! EVEN ALL FUCKING MIGHT COULDN'T SUGARCOAT IT. My brain screams through my tears, tearing apart any thoughts that could've possibly made me feel any better. Maybe you'll come back with a quirk in your next life. "A swan dive... off a roof?" I say aloud, pondering it. "Bakugou'd freak. Maybe he'd even show up to my funeral" I laugh. But the idea sticks with me for the next few weeks. I mean, maybe my mother would finally stop being so miserable all the time. Maybe it'd be better for everyone? I gave up on studying a while back. What's the use in studying if I don't have a future anyway? Inko bugs me about it, but she'll get over it eventually. "Swannnnnn dive," I sing. It's become a routine. If I get too bored I'll sing something negative someone has said to me. "Off of a rOoOoOoOf!" before laughing. I feel like Arianna Grande. Heh. I giggle again, thinking to myself I'm losing all clutches on sanity, as well as my will to live. SeEeWer-SiDEeEe! I burst out laughing again. "That's how it should be spelt. S-E-W-E-R-S-I-D-E." I spell out, writing it on a leftover All Might post-it note, and stick it on my wall. I hum my newfound tune, and turn on my computer.
PRO HERO ALL MIGHT SAVES THE DAY AGA-! An ad starts to say, before I slam the screen shut once more. Dude stop. For reals. Leave me aloOoOoOoOnE.
"Izuku, come downstairs please. I think it's time we had a talk." MY mother yells. I roll my eyes, dreading the lecture about yOu NeEd A GoOd FuTuRe and iTs FoR yOuR oWn GoOd. Gah.
As expected, she goes on about such subjects for atleast ten minutes, and although I try to nod along and listen, her gentle words cannot penetrate my closed mind. It's not like I don't understand her because I can hear and comprehend every word she says, it's simply that none of it truly gets through to me. All I can think of is all the All Might merch I want to get rid of, and the body pillow I've been dying to burn. (yes I gave deku an all might body pillow dhmu) "Izuku, are you listening to me?"
"ALL MIGHT BODY PILLOWS- I'm sorry, yes I am." it's not a complete lie, I think, because I was listening, just not processing the information properly. She gives me a disappointed look, but continues to talk for a while.
After a long few months of doing nothing, I decide I may as well try and get into UA. Who knows, I think, maybe it'll be alright. So, naturally, I bump into Bakugo bloody Katsuki on my way there.
"Shitty nerd! Where do you think you're going?"
"u-ua?" I stutter.
"You still think you can get in? HAH! Damn Deku. I'm gonna destroy you."
I nod my head, not wanting to antagonise him, and take off without a second word. I can hear him yelling after me, but once I'm out of earshot I relax my shoulders and let out an audible sigh of relief. My calmness doesn't last long, because as soon as I cross the pavement into UA I trip, and almost fall on my face. Emphasis on the "almost". Is this it? Did I just find my quirk?
"Heya, are you alright?" I hear a female voice behind me. "I hope you don't mind, I used my quirk on you, but you were going to fall soo..."
"Th-th-!" I start, but she checks her watch, and says to me
"Let's both do our best, okay? Don't fall again!" Before she rushes off.
Useless. I'm still useless. I think, as the kind rosy cheeked girl is crushed under rubble, and the robot looms ever closer. I can't do anything! I'm so fucking useless. Then, like a figment of my worst imaginations, Kacchan materialises in front of me, and pulls her from the wreckage. Gah, he's got her. I've got to focus on getting some points. Bakugo runs maybe 10 metres, before he roughly throws the girl to the side like a rag doll, and she gives a cry of pain but he seems not to notices, looking around for any more automatons.
"Don't be so dramatic. You're fine. Now look, there's barely any robots left. Thanks a lot." He storms towards the nearest crowds, leaving the poor injured girl crying on top of a crumbled building. I struggle with myself for a few seconds, before sorting my priorities and rushing towards the girl, giving up on the practical exam altogether.
"Here, can you take my arm? It'll make it easier to get you up."
She looks up at me like I'm some kind of angel, and nods before reaching out slowly and taking my arm. "There ya go, Kudos to you for bravery. Cmon, let's go...?"
"U-uraraka. Ochaco Uraraka." she mumbles.
"Cool. Hey Uraraka, I'm Izuku, and I'm gonna get you to safety. Didja get enough points to go on, dya think?" I smile, trying not to panic at the thought of my own (non-existent) points.
"Yeah, but, wh-why are you helping me?" She stutters, looking up at me with guilty eyes. "You still need points too."
"It's OK, I was gonna flunk the practical exams anyway. Never been as good at the quirk and physical stuff, ya know?"
She smiles sadly up at me, but does not speak to that. "S'ok, I studied hard for the written, so hopefully I've got enough to make it into a decent class." We arrive at the doors out, and I lay her down gently beside them. "Here we are, good luck, aye 'Raka?" To which she nods weakly, before muttering,
"Go get em, Zuku," I grin sadly at her, at stride back into battle.
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gHoSt (a bnha fanfic)
HumorI don't know. I'm honestly just doing this because a friend gave me the idea so I kind of built a story around it. I'm changing the plot a little, so it fits better with my story. Nothing belongs to me except what I have written! Also there is most...
